Henrik K wrote:
Mailing lists are much better. I'm signed up for a couple of dozen
mailing lists and they pretty much all work exactly the same. I don't
want to learn a couple of dozen different types of web based forum
software.
When I send a message to a mailing list, it gets pushed out to the
mailboxes of everyone who is a member, and when they respond I get an
almost immediate response in my mailbox. Far more efficient than forum
software.
Good for you. I've signed up for many mailing lists AND forums. There is
nothing inherently better or worse in either of them,
No that's wrong, they're quite different and both have advantages and
disadvantages.
it's all up to your
tastes. But it's not like there are "dozen different types" of forums (I
don't really count the crappy sourceforge etc ones).
There are dozens. Whether or not you choose to count some of them in
your own personal list isn't really relevant.
When properly setup,
forums offer excellent categorization and search possibilities etc. Makes no
difference to me whether I open up my list-inbox or browser+bookmark.
List archives. There is a list of different places at
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/MailingLists which archive the list
messages and each have different search capabilities.
If someone set up a proper SA forum, I'd be happy to stop by. But it might
be hard to get all the developers and other active participants join there,
which is what makes all the difference.
Set up the forum. It might work. I'm not anti-forum, I just think
mailing lists are generally better.
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